A Senate leader says talks are underway about whether to tax the rich to avoid cuts. But how deep the hole will be, and whether the federal government will step in to help fill it, are big unknowns.
‘While I and many other CUNY employees are enraged at the chancellor’s handling of the crisis, he is also administering a system that was slashed in 1975 and gradually bled almost every year since.’
The crisis is held up as a morality tale about the limits of democracy and progressive government—lessons that some would apply to our current, pandemic-driven emergency.
First the mayor moved to cancel SYEP. Then it was belatedly restored. Providers say the rush to get it up and running has made the summer harder than it needed to be.
We look forward to voting for second passage of the Budget Equity Act next year, then working with community groups across the state on a public education and organizing campaign to persuade the voters to approve it on November 2, 2021.
The 2021 left out $15 million in previously promised money, and advocates are just now getting a look at what the reduced funds will mean.
A hard-won program is slated for cuts because of COVID-19.
The recently passed budget shifted capital spending on housing to later years. But some in the housing world think good news from Washington could lead the city to change course.
For the city’s borough-based jail plan, this is a temporary halt, not a permanent rest. And for the community members fighting the plan, there’s still a long way to go.
‘My family—and families like mine all over this city—deserve to be able to call for help and actually get it.’